Participative research on learning and development in professional settings

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I study lifelong learning and development in relation to work collaboration, in changing work environments, with a focus on the analysis of social and material interactions, technological change, and a socio-cultural perspective on the interplay of institutional, interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics in learning and development. I am well recognised as an international expert on professional learning, activity analysis, dialogism, and innovative qualitative methods, particularly inspired by the French tradition called Activity Clinics. I have been involved as member and as scientific experts in different international research projects (for example, EU RISE COLAB) and have been guest Professor in UK (Bournemouth University, 2018) and in France (Université de Nantes, 2023; Université de Toulouse, 2026). I work with developmental methodologies such as Cross Self-Confrontations and Instructions to the Double.

Some publications related to this topic:

  • Cesari Lusso, V. & Kloetzer, L. (2025). Quand l’Entretien d’explicitation (EdE)et l’Instruction au Sosie (IS) se lancent dans une collaboration pour étudier (le développement des) les compétences professionnelles. Expliciter 144, Janvier 2025, 1-34.
  • Cesari Lusso, V. & Kloetzer, L. (2024). L’intergénérationnel à la crèche : exemple d’une utopie concrète fruit de compétences professionnelles multiples mais presque invisibles. Revue (petite) enfance, n°144, juin 2024, pp. 72-89.
  • Hean, S., Johnson, B., Kajama, A. & Kloetzer, L. (Eds) (2021). Collaboration, innovation and organisational learning in Penal Systems. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Cristofari, H., Jung, M. K., Niclauss, N., Toso, C., & Kloetzer, L. (2021). Teaching and learning robotic surgery at the dual console: a video-based qualitative analysis. Journal of robotic surgery, 1-10.
  • Kloetzer, L. (2020). Concrete Psychology and the Activity Clinic Approach: Implications for Interventionist Research in the XXIst Century. Cultural-Historical Psychology, 16(2), 42-50.
  • Kloetzer, L. (2018). Doing Research Upside Down: Action and Research in Cross Self-Confrontations. International Journal of Action Research, 14(2/3), 202-218.